New provost at NKU comes from artistic background

1:24 AM,
Nov. 1, 2013

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A creative background as an actor and director will distinguish Sue Ott Rowlands, the next top academic official at Northern Kentucky University, from other college administrators.

"You can face some really tricky problems, and you have to figure out creative ways to solve them so people can do the work you hired them to do," Rowlands said in an interview Thursday, hours after NKU announced her selection as provost. She starts work Jan. 6. She will earn $290,000 a year.

Rowlands, 60, currently is dean of the College of Liberal Arts & Human Sciences at Virginia Tech. The Oklahoma native has ...